of Boukreev's logbook. The book is also partially a response to Jon Krakauer's account of the same 1996 Everest climb in his book Into Thin Air (1997),...

part of the 1996 climbing disaster on the mountain wearing green Koflach mountaineering boots. All expeditions from the north side encountered the body curled...

guide in the Mountain Madness team, felt impugned by the book and co-authored a rebuttal called The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (1997). Beck Weathers...

publishing the story for a year so that he could train for a climb to the summit. From there, the book moves between describing events that took place on the mountain...

She then died during the descent. In 1992, Francys married Sergei Arsentiev. Together, they climbed many Russian peaks, including the first ascent of Peak...

ropes at the base of the step in 1996, according to his book The Climb. The step was closed during the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition by the First...

Open Book is a traditional climbing route at Tahquitz Rock, in Riverside County, California. Since the Yosemite Decimal System was developed at Tahquitz...

east of the mountain. He wrote to his wife: "We are about to walk off the map..." After five months of arduous climbing around the base of the mountain...

were preparing the route through the dangerous icefall for the spring climbing season when the avalanche engulfed them. UNITEC Institute of Technology....

Climbing expeditions attempting the normal route from Tibet use this glacier to reach the Advanced Base Camp of Mount Everest at the upper end of the...

The Second Step is especially significant both historically and in mountaineering terms. Any climber who wants to climb on the normal route from the north...

The 1996 Indo-Tibetan Border Police Expedition to Mount Everest in May 1996 was a climbing expedition mounted by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)...

(East side) Dickinson, Matt (October 5, 2011). "The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm". Crown – via Google Books. Wikimedia...

on Everest in The Climb, a book co-written with Gary Weston DeWalt. The core of the controversy was Boukreev's decision to attempt the summit without...

especially its crux, the "Second Step" - and ascended to the summit, alone and without using supplemental oxygen. The most successful climb to that point by...

Nepal and gone via the southeast ridge and the South Col (instead of via the North Col). When climbers attempt to climb Everest from the southeast ridge...

waist were the remnants of a braided cotton climbing rope, some tangled around the body, from which its broken, frayed end trailed. On the right foot...

sitting on top the Kangshung cliff To climb the face, the 3 kilometer (2 mi) wide base of the wall must be surpassed by climbing up either the deep gashes...

Yasuko, February 7, 1949 – May 11, 1996) was the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to climb the Seven Summits. Namba worked as a businesswoman...

feet. Climbing, Climb or The climb may also refer to: Climbing equipment, and the related items such as: Climbing harness Climbing rope Climbing shoe Climbing...

Everest was not acceptable; the British wanted the climb to be an example of British spirit to lift morale. Mallory refused to climb again without Finch, but...

attempting to reach the Everest summit from the Nepalese southern side by two routes. The majority of expedition members used the same route climbed ten years earlier...

Khumbu Icefall of Mount Everest while assisting the Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970 climbing expedition. Four days later Sherpa Kyak Tsering,...

used when climbing via the southeast ridge, while North Base Camp is used when climbing via the northeast ridge. Supplies are shipped to the South Base...

Molines 1984 May 20/21 Members of the Czechoslovak expedition led by Ivan Galfy climb the South Face of Lhotse Shar for the first time (third overall ascent...

replaced Qu Yinhua. At 12 p.m., they reached the Second Step. After several unsuccessful attempts to climb over the Step's last section, Liu Lianman, who was...

book Climbing High (1998) recounts the 1996 Everest disaster when a storm took the lives of Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. Her book...

first serious attempt to climb grade 5 climbs in the death zone. In 1988, Russell Brice and Harry Taylor successfully climbed the Three Pinnacles, but they...

is considered good climbing etiquette that members of the group make some effort to keep track of one another. Before Sharp booked his trip with Asian...

it, connected to it by the Cornice Traverse and Hillary Step. It was first climbed by Charles Evans and Tom Bourdillon of the 1953 British Mount Everest...